AG fines meat processor $86,000 for ‘alarming’ violations

Blood from Westminster Meats pools on the street in a photo from the Department of Environmental Conservation taken in August, 2013.
The Vermont Attorney General this week fined Westminster Meats $86,000 for numerous violations involving untreated wastewater from animal slaughter being sent into public waterways.
The Agency of Natural Resources fined the Westminster-based meat-packing plant $11,000 in 2014 for similar violations that occurred in 2013, including stored gore from the plant flowing